The rich CEO and Lazarus
Our Communications Manager Liam Purcell reflects on news that the government plans to make businesses publish the gap between the pay of their chief executive and an average worker.
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What does a ‘church of the poor’ look like?
Some inspiring thinkers have been helping us to develop our vision of how churches could engage better with poor communities. Communications Manager Liam Purcell shares what we learned.
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Universal Credit – universal chaos?
In a guest blog first published by the William Temple Foundation, Greg Smith reflects on work at the sharp end of austerity Britain, and theological approaches to change.
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Poverty and the Passion
Director Niall Cooper shares an Easter message from all of us at Church Action on Poverty.
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Celebrate what food banks do – but demand action from government on hunger
The Right Revd Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, wrote this blog for End Hunger UK.
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No Advent cheer for modern-day Cratchits
Our Director Niall Cooper sees little Christmas cheer in two recent pieces of poverty news.
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A Poor Church that is good news to the poor?
Lynne Cullen, a working-class single mother and Anglican priest, attended our National Poverty Consultation in Manchester on 2-3 November. Here are her reflections on the event.
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‘For’ the poor or ‘of’ the poor?
A Church for the Poor, a new book from Jubilee Plus, explores the same questions as Church Action on Poverty’s ‘Church of the Poor?’ project. In this guest post, Greg Smith, Development Worker for Together Lancashire, reviews the book.
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How can we listen better?
Church Action on Poverty in Sheffield share a report on their service for Church Action on Poverty Sunday 2017 – with a powerful sermon by the Director of the Urban Theological Union.
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No match for proper conversation
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ox-pops can’t ensure the voices of people in poverty are really heard, says our new Poverty Media Coordinator Gavin Aitchison.
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